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    "text": "Jesus, where’er thy people meet,",
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    "text": "There they behold thy mercy-seat;",
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   {
    "text": "Where’er they seek thee, thou art found,",
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   {
    "text": "And every place is hallow’d ground.",
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    "text": "For thou, within no walls confined,",
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   {
    "text": "Inhabitest the humble mind;",
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   {
    "text": "Such ever bring thee where they come,",
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   {
    "text": "And going, take thee to their home.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Dear Shepherd of thy chosen few,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy former mercies here renew;",
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   {
    "text": "Here to our waiting hearts proclaim",
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   {
    "text": "The sweetness of thy saving name.",
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    "text": "Here may we prove the power of pray’r",
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    "text": "To strengthen faith and sweeten care⁠—",
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    "text": "To teach our faint desires to rise,",
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    "text": "And bring all heaven before our eyes.",
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    "text": "Behold, at thy commanding word,",
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    "text": "We stretch the curtain and the cord;",
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    "text": "Come thou, and fill this wider space,",
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    "text": "And bless us with a large increase.",
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    "text": "Lord, we are few, but thou art near;",
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    "text": "Nor short thine arm, nor deaf thine ear;",
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   {
    "text": "O rend the heavens, come quickly down,",
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    "text": "And make a thousand hearts thine own!",
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